"I really wanna break your heart,/ Split it right in two;/ So when you meet another chick,/ She'll know I wounded you./ And if you go to kiss her lips,/ She'll taste the hurt I've sown,/ And know that you're just damaged goods,/ Not worth

A hornet's nest is...a nest built by hornets. Hornets are ferocious, wasp-like stinging insects. If you disturb a hornet's nest, you cause thousands of hornets to swarm and attack. So, when you stir up something that is metaphorically a 'hornet's

You could also say "I am coming home late today."

Verbs in the simple past end in "-ed". So Modern English "played" is Middle English "pleyed". That "-ed" is called a 'dental suffix' and is a common feature of the simple past of WEAK verbs in all Germanic languages. NOTE: the "e" in the "-ed" was

Proto- is a prefix that means "the first," "the original," or "primitive". You can stick it onto any noun. "Proto-federal" means something like "the early federal" or "the first version of federal". For example, the proto-federal government of the

In American English, a full stop is required, even within a sentence. There's a secondary rule, too. You should write a company's name exactly as the company writes it. If a company calls itself BizzInc, don't write it Bizz Inc.

Nestor I live in the US (North Carolina). I speak 'Murrican Anglish--southern standard and advanced Redneck varieties. I am interested in low-German, Dutch, and Friesan, but I'll never get

The first sentence is better. You could use one in the answer, but it would sound funny. Just use 'it' instead. "How long did the last one last?" "It lasted an hour."

NanakiXII- I'd suggest looking at an anthology of early English literature. Older works are printed in their mostly original forms, and obsolete words and grammatical structures are explained in footnotes at the bottom of the page. Anthologies